Alert archive / Ohio / Tornado Warnings in 1997
Tornado Warning 17, NWS Wilmington, OH
NWS Wilmington, OH issued this tornado warning at Jul 26, 1997, 7:43 PM EDT for Fairfield County, Ohio. It was in force for 62 min. 1 report came from inside the area while it was in force.
The area
The counties it named, with what was reported inside it.
The facts
- Issued
- Jul 26, 1997, 7:43 PM EDT (23:43 UTC)
- Expired
- Jul 26, 1997, 8:45 PM EDT
- In force
- 62 min
- Issued by
- NWS Wilmington, OH
- Area
- Whole counties
County Fairfield County, OH
The radar
The Cincinnati radar (KILN), 108 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 23:45 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.
Open the radar archive at this moment
The archived warnings, watches and discussions in force at that minute are drawn over the scan, this one among them.
What was reported inside it
| Time | Report | Where | Remark |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 8:30 PM EDT | Thunderstorm Wind 60 | Pickerington, OH | A grocery store roof was damaged and numerous trees were downed. |
NCEI Storm Data entries that began inside the alert's area while it was in force. Before 2003 the local storm report archive is thin, so this is the record of what happened rather than what was phoned in.
The watch it was issued in
The SPC watch in force over the same counties when this warning went out.
| Issued | Product | Office | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:45 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Watch | SPC | 5 hr |
The nearest sounding before it
Cncnati-Daytn, OH (KILN), launched 12:00Z, 11.7 hours before the alert went out and 106 km from the middle of its area. This is the routine balloon launch nearest before it, the air the forecaster had in hand, not a measurement taken for the alert.
- Mixed-layer CAPE
- 14 J/kg
- Mixed-layer CIN
- -311 J/kg
- Mixed-layer LCL
- 1121 m above ground
- 0-6 km bulk shear
- 27 kt
- 0-1 km storm-relative helicity
- 93 m²/s²
- 0-3 km storm-relative helicity
- 151 m²/s²
- Significant tornado parameter
- 0.0
- Supercell composite
- 0.0
The text
As transmitted, in the capitals the NWS used until 2016.
000
TTAA00 KILN 262343 RRA
TORILN
OHC045-270045-
BULLETIN - EAS ACTIVATION REQUESTED
TORNADO WARNING
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILMINGTON OH
743 PM EDT SAT JUL 26 1997
THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE IN WILMINGTON OH HAS ISSUED A
TORNADO WARNING EFFECTIVE UNTIL 845 PM EDT
FOR PEOPLE IN THE FOLLOWING LOCATION...
IN CENTRAL OHIO
...FAIRFIELD COUNTY
AT 740 PM EDT...A TORNADO WAS INDICATED BY WILMINGTON DOPPLER
RADAR 14 MILES NORTH OF LANCASTER OR 7 MILES EAST NORTHEAST OF
PICKERINGTON MOVING SOUTH SOUTHEAST AT 25 MPH.
THIS STORM CAN BE EXPECTED IN THE VICINITY OF...
MILLERSPORT BY 745 PM EDT
BALTIMORE BY 748 PM EDT
PLEASANTVILLE BY 758 PM EDT
THIS STORM HAS HAD A HISTORY OF TORNADOES IN LICKING COUNTY.
IF YOU ARE IN THE PATH OF THIS STORM...MOVE INSIDE A STRONG
BUILDING. STAY AWAY FROM WINDOWS SINCE THEY CAN EASILY SHATTER IN
SEVERE THUNDERSTORM WINDS. DO NOT USE TELEPHONES OR APPLIANCES
UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY UNTIL THIS STORM HAS PASSED.
RANDALL
&The office that day
Everything else NWS Wilmington, OH issued on the same UTC day.
| Issued | Product | Office | Counties | Lasted |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jul 26, 6:42 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Licking | 48 min |
| Jul 26, 7:08 PM EDT | Tornado Warning | ILN | Licking | 62 min |
| Jul 26, 7:24 PM EDT | Severe Thunderstorm Warning | ILN | Delaware | 31 min |
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Sources
The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; verification from NCEI's Storm Data; the sounding from the Mesonet's radiosonde archive; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.